Chapter 2. Rosegarden Files and Documents

Rosegarden stores each composition in its own document, using
its own internal format. When you save a document it is stored
on disc as a file with the .rg extension.[1]Rosegarden can also
handle a number of other standard file formats.

New compositions

When Rosegarden starts up, it does so with a new document,
containing an "empty" composition ready to start editing.
To put something in that composition, you must either record
something, or create some blank lengths of music (referred
to as "segments") that you can then fill in using the
various editing facilities.

See Recording for details of how to record music, and see the Track Editor section for a
description of how to create, edit, and manage segments of
music.

[1]
Many users have complained about our opaque binary file
format. It is, in fact, nothing more than gzipped XML.